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obviate
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  • In order to obviate any delays possible through any routine requirements as to payment in your departments, we enclose cheque herewith for ten pounds, receipt of which please acknowledge.†  (source)
  • Having approached this structure, I looked inside, and perceived it to be a singular sort of oldfashioned couch, very conveniently designed to obviate the necessity for every member of the family having a room to himself.†  (source)
  • 67 More stars than I had ever seen smeared the frozen sky A gibbous moon rose above the shoulder of 27,824-foot Makalu, washing the slope beneath my boots in ghostly light, obviating the need for a headlamp.†  (source)
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  • That Heather had known Joe for years—in fact, attended the same Lutheran church where Michelle had taken Chrissie and Nina to Sunday school and services—did not obviate her need to see his driver's license.†  (source)
  • Finally, all other difficulties being obviated, woman cannot take advantage of these preliminary reforms until she herself shall have undergone a still mightier change, in which, perhaps, the ethereal essence, wherein she has her truest life, will be found to have evaporated.†  (source)
  • Should any little accidental disappointment of the appetite occur, such as the spoiling of a meal, the under or the over dressing of a dish, the incident ought not to be neutralised by replacing with something more delicate the comfort lost, thus pampering the body and obviating the aim of this institution; it ought to be improved to the spiritual edification of the pupils, by encouraging them to evince fortitude under temporary privation.†  (source)
  • He has no need to go into them minutely-his experience obviates that-the net result is the definite impression that something is wrong.†  (source)
  • To obviate this, I cleaned but two steps at a time, a distance over which a ten-year-old child could step.†  (source)
  • He remembered those generous glutei that obviated any need for a supporting pillow.†  (source)
  • This quarrel was obviating that.†  (source)
  • A useful and graciously austere half-light which dissipates puerile fears and obviates falls.†  (source)
  • If these measures were carefully studied and properly applied, they would obviate any risk of an epidemic.†  (source)
  • —how he granted that by certain lights there was injustice in what he did but that he had obviated that as much as lay in his power by being above-board in the matter;†  (source)
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